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Texas Freedom Network Education Fund and the Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation Launch $500,000 Challenge Grant 

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The Throwdown Fund will have the largest challenge fund in TFNEF’s history FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 21, 2026 CONTACT:Andrew Freeman, 512-746-8404,  [email protected] AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Freedom Network Education Fund (TFNEF) today announced the launch of the Throwdown Fund, an initiative to raise $500,000 to organize, mobilize, and empower Texans advocating for strong public schools, religious freedom, […]

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Book Ban Backlash? Texas School Board Extremists Continue to Lose Key Races Across the State

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School Districts like Lake Travis and Mansfield have become known as ground zero for book bans and other Christian Nationalist policies in recent years, but Texans have said enough is enough.  In the May 2026 elections, several far-right incumbents got the boot as Democratic-backed challengers secured victories across the state. Not just inside Lake Travis […]

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SBOE Calls Separation of Church and State Communist. Is it?

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As the far right continues to force their own beliefs into the classroom, from the State Board of Education to the Texas Legislature, we’re hearing one anti-American claim again and again: the separation of church and state doesn’t exist.  Christian Nationalists aren’t just ignoring our founding fathers, they’re going through ridiculous lengths to question our […]

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Texas Rising Responds to SCOTUS VRA Ruling

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2026 AUSTIN, Texas – The U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday opened the path for Texas and other states to redraw their electoral maps after weakening key protections in the Voting Rights Act. The ruling narrows how Section 2 of the law can be interpreted, which outlaws voting practices that discriminate […]

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